Collard story

corps

THE COLLABORATION

Collard Story Corps brought together our work with Collard Atlas and the Heirloom Collard Project into a fun micro-story project with collard people across the Southeast. We are grateful for our collaboration with collard researcher (and many other things), Christian Keeve.

What is the Collard Story Corps?

When you think about collards, where do you go back to? The garden? The kitchen? The field? What do you see? What do you taste? What do you smell? What do you hear? Who else is there?

Collard Story Corps is a public archival project about the diversity of collards across the U.S. South and the diversity of the people who grow, steward, eat, and advocate for them. Through a mix of self-guided and one on one interviews, people tell their own stories about this culturally significant crop that has impacted so many of our lives. Through this project, we hope to uplift the power of storykeeping alongside seedkeeping, and invite listeners to reflect on how their own stories of food and seeds may also grow and evolve with the land year after year. If you would like to contribute your story to the Collard Story Corps, please reach out to Chris Keeve and Chris Smith.

Collard story corps collaborator

Christian Keeve, Collaborator

Christian Keeve is a PhD candidate in Geography at the University of Kentucky and a Woodson Predoctoral Fellow at the University of Virginia. They are also a seedkeeper, chaotic gardener, and organizer with seed communities including the Heirloom Collard Project, Nonbinary Botany, Truelove Seeds, and Ujamaa Cooperative Farming Alliance.